The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters returned to their old stomping ground just in time to change their fortunes against an old nemesis.
Atsunori Inaba hit a pair of home runs and Brian Wolfe threw six innings of shutout ball to help the Fighters beat Yoshihisa Naruse and the Chiba Lotte Marines 4-0 on Tuesday night at Tokyo Dome.
"Naruse was pitching as he always does at the beginning, but Inaba's home run changed the flow of the game," Fighters manager Masataka Nashida said.
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